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Bhavik Joshi, Computer Software Engineer

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I can't find anyway to remove the search history in my

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I can't find anyway to remove the search history in my Hotmail account and the Microsoft help people seem to be of no useJA: How long have you had this issue with your Hotmail account?Customer: last couple of days - I didn't think much of it but I logged into someone else's computer and noticed it comes up there tooJA: How do you access your email most often? On a phone or tablet, or through a web browser?Customer: web browserJA: What troubleshooting have you tried?Customer: Mainly googling lolJA: Anything else you want the email expert to know before I connect you?Customer: Just want to make sure it doesn't clear anything else - it doesn't come up on my phone when I search via my outlook ap. Only when I login online - I mainly use Internet Explorer & Chrome

I got charged $66 to do that but cancelled because my phone number doesn't fit into the spaces available. Also it's the search history in Hotmail only I want cleared - not google etc as per my question

Re-check that the Only suggest people in my contact list is selected (Options > Advanced privacy settings). By default, Hotmail provides suggestions for any e-mail address you received e-mail from or send e-mail to.

Make sure that all e-mails containing e-mail address(es) you want to remove are deleted. Check all e-mail folders including the "Deleted" folder as well.

Sign out of your Hotmail account and sign back in.

When you click on the "New" button to create a new e-mail, old e-mail addresses shouldn't automatically show. If those e-mail addresses still appear when using the search box, then there is no way at the moment to manually delete them or change the search results. It is because Hotmail uses search index that was automatically generated based on your e-mail history. If you delete all record of an e-mail address from your account, the search index should remove it as well after some time. If not, then this is limitation of Hotmail web interface and there is nothing you can do to change that.

Thanks Bhavik - disappointing I've got it confirmed basically there is no way to clear it but you've given me a well rounded response thanks. As for the other charge please do contact the team - I've got a$44 charge for this conversation and $66 also but it was to securely connect which I cannot do. Thanks anyway

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